Prevalence of medication errors among paediatric inpatients: systematic review and meta-analysis

PJ Gates, MT Baysari, M Gazarian, MZ Raban… - Drug Safety, 2019 - Springer
Introduction The risk of medication errors is high in paediatric inpatient settings. However,
estimates of the prevalence of medication errors have not accounted for heterogeneity …

[HTML][HTML] Medication dispensing errors and prevention

RA Tariq, R Vashisht, A Sinha, Y Scherbak - 2018 - europepmc.org
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Task errors by emergency physicians are associated with interruptions, multitasking, fatigue and working memory capacity: a prospective, direct observation study

JI Westbrook, MZ Raban, SR Walter… - BMJ quality & …, 2018 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Background Interruptions and multitasking have been demonstrated in experimental studies
to reduce individuals' task performance. These behaviours are frequently used by clinicians …

[HTML][HTML] How to improve healthcare improvement—an essay by Mary Dixon-Woods

M Dixon-Woods - bmj, 2019 - bmj.com
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Characteristics of interruptions during medication administration: An integrative review of direct observational studies

G Schroers - Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aims and objectives To synthesise and summarise data gathered by direct observation of
the characteristics of interruptions in the context of nursing medication administration (MA) in …

Associations of person-related, environment-related and communication-related factors on medication errors in public and private hospitals: a retrospective clinical …

E Manias, M Street, G Lowe, JK Low, K Gray… - BMC Health Services …, 2021 - Springer
Background Efforts to ensure safe and optimal medication management are crucial in
reducing the prevalence of medication errors. The aim of this study was to determine the …

Effectiveness of a 'do not interrupt'vest intervention to reduce medication errors during medication administration: a multicenter cluster randomized controlled trial

S Berdot, A Vilfaillot, Y Bezie, G Perrin, M Berge… - BMC nursing, 2021 - Springer
Background The use of a 'do not interrupt'vest during medication administration rounds is
recommended but there have been no controlled randomized studies to evaluate its impact …

[HTML][HTML] Harveian Oration 2018: Improving quality and safety in healthcare

M Dixon-Woods - Clinical Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Challenges in providing consistently high-quality, safe care are common to health systems
worldwide. In this lecture I will propose that, while the NHS is not unique in experiencing …

Faster clinical response to the onset of adverse events: A wearable metacognitive attention aid for nurse triage of clinical alarms

DC McFarlane, AK Doig, JA Agutter, LM Brewer… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Objective This study evaluates the potential for improving patient safety by introducing a
metacognitive attention aid that enables clinicians to more easily access and use existing …

What is the impact of introducing inpatient electronic prescribing on prescribing errors? A naturalistic stepped wedge study in an English teaching hospital

BD Franklin, S Puaar - Health Informatics Journal, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Most studies evaluating the impact of electronic prescribing on prescribing safety have used
comparatively weak study designs such as uncontrolled before-and-after studies. This study …